Faten

“My husband keeps saying that I am the master of the house now. He tells the kids that they need to ask me for something, as I am the breadwinner. With the money I earn, I pay for the rent and the children’s schooling.”

Hear from Fatima, who is internally displaced within Syria, and has been working with Sabbara for over eight years.

To celebrate the launch of our recent collaboration with embroidery kit start-up The Fabled Thread, we sat down with creative maverick and founder Eppie Thompson to talk all things embroidery.

“My work means a lot to me because it was a kind of transformation in my life,” says Juyahna, one of our refugee artisans in Lebanon.